Indian Football

29 articles tagged with "Indian Football"

Oct 6, 2026

East Bengal start their ISL defence a week late, and Bengaluru open the new season against Sporting Club Delhi on Saturday

The 2026-27 ISL is home and away again, with 13 clubs, a title sponsor and a play-off. The champions are busy with Al Shorta in the AFC Champions Leag...

Sep 24, 2026

Panama did not score at the World Cup, and India have not won in four before they meet in Bengaluru

India play Panama for the first time on Friday at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium, with Ryan Williams back from injury at his club ground.

Sep 17, 2026

India’s under-15s got Senegal and Cameroon in Baku, and 12,000 players were watched to pick the 14

India are in Group K of the inaugural FIFA U15 World Cup and Festival alongside Bahrain, Cameroon, Grenada, Laos and Senegal. The matches are 8v8, and...

Sep 16, 2026

India are ranked 138th, and Panama, Brazil and Uruguay are all coming to play them

Brazil have never played a senior match in India and will be the best-ranked opponent the Blue Tigers have faced since 1992. Three World Cup nations a...

Sep 6, 2026

Forlan’s first Uruguay squad has 46 names in it, and the last stop is Kolkata

Luis Suarez is not among the 46 Uruguay named on Saturday. Federico Valverde and Rodrigo Bentancur are, and the tour finishes at Salt Lake on 6 Octobe...

Aug 26, 2026

Lalrindika scored three inside 34 minutes, and East Bengal’s 22-year Durand Cup wait was over by half-time

Five goals at the Salt Lake Stadium, none of them after the 44th minute, and a derby hat-trick of a kind nobody in red and gold had managed since Baic...

Aug 21, 2026

India gave up a FIFA tournament for one friendly, and the AIFF is talking about legal action

India pulled out of the inaugural FIFA ASEAN Cup to host Brazil in Kolkata on 3 October. After Bhaichung Bhutia questioned the cost, the federation ha...

Aug 21, 2026

Kaith saves two, and Kolkata gets its first Durand Cup derby final since 2023

Vishal Kaith kept out Robin Yadav and Parthib Gogoi as Mohun Bagan beat holders NorthEast United 4-3 on penalties in Shillong. They play East Bengal a...

Aug 20, 2026

Diamond Harbour climbed four tiers in three seasons, and 55 lakh rupees stopped them at the last one

The AIFF has confirmed the Indian Super League will run with 13 clubs in 2026-27. The club that won promotion is not one of them, and nobody takes the...

Aug 20, 2026

Gill saves twice, and East Bengal are 90 minutes from ending a 22-year Durand Cup wait

A goalless semi-final at Salt Lake went to penalties, where East Bengal won 5-3. Their goalkeeper had already kept Sporting Club Delhi out from the sp...

Aug 19, 2026

Diamond Harbour have until 2pm to pay, and the ISL has moved to 10 October

The Indian Super League will now start on 10 October, five weeks later than the date that had been in circulation. Diamond Harbour FC, who won promoti...

Aug 18, 2026

Mohun Bagan needed 18 penalties to reach a semi-final against the team that beat them on penalties

The 135th Durand Cup semi-final line-up was settled on Monday: Mohun Bagan survived a 9-8 shootout with Jamshedpur, and Alaaeddine Ajaraie’s hat-trick...

Aug 17, 2026

Vishnu’s header puts East Bengal in the semi-finals, 22 years after their last Durand Cup

East Bengal beat Indian Army FT 1-0 at Salt Lake to reach the Durand Cup semi-finals, where unbeaten SC Delhi are waiting on Wednesday.

Aug 14, 2026

The ISL restarts on 4 September with 13 clubs, and the clubs now hold the commercial rights

India’s top division returns on 4 September after a summer in which it nearly did not happen at all. Thirteen teams will play it, one fewer than plann...

Aug 14, 2026

The Durand Cup quarter-finals are set, and Mohammedan are not in them

The 135th Durand Cup group stage finished on Thursday night. Mohun Bagan and East Bengal both came through it. Mohammedan SC, beaten by a debutant fro...

Aug 11, 2026

Mohanraj saves at 0-0, Gogoi scores twice, and NorthEast United go through with a perfect record

NorthEast United are into the Durand Cup quarter-finals as Group F winners. The closest FC1 came to them was a penalty in the seventh minute.

Aug 11, 2026

Jai Agarwal has bought into Guarda FC, and the plan runs through India

Guarda FC, seven years old and in Portugal’s fourth tier, have taken on an Indian shareholder. The announcement made in Portugal and the one that reac...

Aug 11, 2026

SC Delhi put seven past the Air Force and go through as Group C winners

Seven goals from six different scorers in Ranchi, and a group stage finished without dropping a point. SC Delhi are into the Durand Cup quarter-finals...

Aug 9, 2026

East Bengal have scored 13 and conceded one, and Mohun Bagan still win Group A

Six points, 13 goals scored, one conceded, and second place. East Bengal’s Durand Cup group is finished, and Mohun Bagan have already won it with a ga...

Aug 2, 2026

An 8-0, three hat-tricks and a 1-0 derby: the Durand Cup group stage so far

Why the group stage of Asia’s oldest football tournament keeps producing lopsided scorelines, and what it means for the quarter-final race that starts...

Jul 28, 2026

Qatar national football team: full squad and key players

Qatar reached the 2026 World Cup through qualifying for the first time and went out in the group stage. Here is the full 26-man squad, the players who...

Jul 28, 2026

The Indian Football League returns on 16 October with a three-foreigner cap

The IFL Governing Council has set 16 October as the start of the 2026-27 season and agreed to limit clubs to three foreign players in the starting ele...

Jul 9, 2026

The greatest Indian football players of all time

From the golden-era greats of the 1950s and 60s to Sunil Chhetri’s record-breaking goals, these are the greatest Indian football players of all time,...

Jul 1, 2026

India national football team players: the 26 named for Brazil, Panama and Uruguay

Twenty-five of the 26 play their club football in India, the exception is a goalkeeper in the Slovenian second division, and between them this squad h...